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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

Member Since: Sun Jan 04, 2004
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In Reply To
Rhiannon

Subj: I disagree.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 at 07:56:24 pm EDT (Viewed 403 times)
Reply Subj: A very lenient responce given the circumstances.
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 01:58:05 pm EDT (Viewed 9 times)

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Some sort of unhappy government person was always going to appear. I'm not sure if it's wrong either, there's a major difference between superhero ethics and military ethics and if the LL do expand they'll be operating under military ethics which don't fit well with vigilante justice. Now all it takes is for the LL to provoke an already tense siuation by helping a wanted murderess like Silicone Sally and it's looking like the end of a team.

I reject the premise that operating with an expanded (even global) roster necessarily requires the adoption of a military status. There are plenty of organizations that do good both on a worldwide scale and on a ground-level basis that are about as far removed from any sort of military operations or ethos as you can get.

To a large extent, I suppose it depends on how you see the nature of a superhero team, because if you already see it as a superhuman (or even cosmic-level) extension of a law enforcement agency or "peace-keeping" military force to begin with, then the jurisdictional issues could be problematic, but if you see it as something like the Peace Corps or Doctors Without Borders (or even firefighters) with some superhuman muscle behind them, then it doesn't change the ethics of the thing at all. I suspect you see the Lair Legion as a Lawful Good team, whereas I see it as a Neutral Good team, which just so happens to have switched from a Lawful Good leader to a Chaotic Good leader.

Bottom line, it comes down to a question of whether you see a superhero team as something that upholds order and rules (albeit benevolently intended ones), or whether you see it as something that should simply do good regardless of the rules.



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